Monday, June 14, 2010

I'm in a philosophical mood

Hey Everyone,
I've been feeling very deep lately so this will be an incredibly incredibly boring blog. I attribute it to seeing two depressing films in a row. One of them "Up in the air" had a nice message about how it's the people in our lives that matter and not the places we go. However, the ending was sooooo bad. I never felt more lonely after a movie in my life. So if you see it, don't see it alone. I know, where was Juicebox? He actually went to the Chumash Casino with a new jungle pal-a possum actually-named Raphael. They've been having oodles of fun. Raphael's from India so he's absolutely in love with California. Juicebox loves being his tour guide. I've never seen a possum happier to be at the beach.
The other film I saw was "Seven." It didn't depress me initially but then I listened to the audio commentary (I know what a film dork). David Fincher (the director) mainly talked about the color temperature of the film and how he used Keno lights for the cool look of the film. Today's films are all about harsh, hard lighting. He seems very intelligent, he kept giving very very random facts about life and how at the time he was concerned with making footnote films (ones that have an important point but in the long run aren't remembered).
Then the writer (Andrew Kevin Walker) talked about how he came up with the idea. He came from Pennsylvania and just moved to New York. He was immediately depressed because he saw sins everywhere he went. He spent alot of the time talking about how we live in a society where you can't go a day without seeing one of the seven deadly sins. He talked about how we actually celebrate them. He then talked about the seven virtues and how the average person can't come up with them. So I was thinking to get me out of this depressed humanity funk, I would meditate on one of the seven virtues and stop dwelling on the seven sins, but we'll see how that goes.
Other than that, my industrial class is ending this week and I should be doing my portfolio, okay I'm going to do my portfolio, oh wait getting dressed would help. See everyone later!

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